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Alhamdulillah, that's slavats,

and the helluathe and noura,

then what kaffo by their Godiom do.

Alhamd to Allah, then al-hanyi nāraubihani

we begin by praising Allah, subhanahua-ta-a-a-a-a-a-a-a for having blessed us to be Muslims,

having blessed us to have iman in Him, having blessed us to be in the best of all

ummas, to be the recipients of the best of all

books all of these blessings we didn't earn them we didn't deserve them

Allah chose us out of so many others Allah azzowajal blessed us to not only believe

in him but to al-hambulillah be-l-h-l-h-l-h-h-h-hunging to worship him. There are many who say they believe, but their actions are minimal. And whatever our shortcomings, whatever our sins are, tonight we find ourselves, al-h-h-h-h-l-h-h-hazjid of one of the massajids of Allah, wanting to come ta'a a wanting to come close to him wanting to have our sins

forgiven wanting to experience a closeness to him and inshallah

this is a blessing from Allah in and of itself that we cannot thank him enough for and today

my dear brothers and sisters,

tonight, I don't have any profound, deep lecture prepared.

I have been thinking for many days, weeks really,

about so many things happening in this Ummah.

But let me begin with a completely random fact. A few weeks ago,

I was watching a documentary about dinosaurs and the various stages of creation on this earth.

And what struck me, of course you've heard this, you've read this, you know this,

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